Traffic stop on I-84 leads to 3 arrests, drug haul

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Oct 5, 2012 at 2:00 AM

TOWN OF WALLKILL — State troopers and the FBI arrested three men on Wednesday, and seized guns, narcotics and more than a pound of marijuana after they pulled a car over and then searched a storage locker.

TOWN OF WALLKILL — State troopers and the FBI arrested three men on Wednesday, and seized guns, narcotics and more than a pound of marijuana after they pulled a car over and then searched a storage locker.

Troopers say they pulled a car over on Interstate 84, and found cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin, MDMA and the marijuana.

Authorities then searched a storage locker in Wallkill and found 3 ounces of crack cocaine, 3 ounces of MDMA, and 1 ounce of heroin.

Two handguns reported stolen in Pennsylvania were also recovered.

Jose Rosario, 26, of Matamoras, Pa., was charged with four counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance and one count of criminal possession of marijuana, felonies.

Shariff Gual, 26, of Northbridge, Mass., and Jamel Williams, 24, of Middletown, were also charged with felony marijuana possession.

Rosario was being held at the Orange County Jail in lieu of $100,000 cash bail; and Gual and Williams were held in lieu of $125,000 bail. Other charges are pending.